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the incredible cost of participating in the gond event
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I think the 5 day gond even lasted about 4 hours, maybe 6. It is a shame because i had been looking forward to it ever since i came back a few months ago.
The cost to craft those things is incredible. I spent weeks trying to stockpile gold because it was expensive when i did it a year ago and then i did it the cheap way. There actually WAS a cheap way. it was my favorite event. I have been looking forward to it for months but here i am basically out of the event already. Spent dry despite stockpiling gold and AD. For what? I could have bought all the pres wards i would get from this event. Coal wards would be nice but it takes a ton of spending before you get to the point where a coal ward isn't wasted. The mounts have no bonus besides gladiator's guile and it isn't gonna do much for your player's effectiveness. you can't even unequip mounts to avoid getting "balanced" in scaled content. If i get the mounts, who am i gonna sell them to? The rich players probably already have them on every mule after they couldn't offload them. I like the anvil artifact but it costs so much to upgrade i'm not sure i want to do it despite having them still in inventory from the event last year. They are being sold for very little already. The forgehammers are in the auction house for 2 million and no one is buying so I am guessing they are relatively useless now. I always wanted one. I could have just bought one if i hadn't spent everything i had for 10 hrs worth of event.
The moment i saw how expensive it was to make sprockets (i think it is sprockets) i went into panic mode. I took advantage of the auction house chaos, buying and selling until i had tripled all i had. But i knew that wasn't enough to keep me going all the way through the event. The price of gold tripled. Everything that could be sold for gold practically disappeared except the few things that were listed at the same amount gold was listed at. Then, as quickly as the chaos began it ended. No one was buying on the AH any more. I had the cheapest prices for things for hours until everyone else selling started dropping prices. Even with low prices, still nothing was selling. Gold dropped back down below the price it was going for before the event.
Oh, and, remember that "vendor bug"? I didn't believe it was really a bug. The whole time i was thinking, "the devs did this on purpose so people couldn't prepare for gond". Am I to believe a game mechanic that has worked for 7 years suddenly and spontaneously malfunctioned right when people needed it most?
Gond went from being the best event in the game to nothing. Why not keep it fun but just make everything bta? As it is now, no one who needs the stuff from the event can afford to participate in the event.
I was just talking to some newbs about how the game is not newb friendly and why it isn't newb friendly. This event makes another good example.
For perspective, when i did it the first time i spent the first day just trying to figure it out. I happened to have about 300 gold on each of my 5 chars which lasted me 4 days. I had so much gold because i had just finished crafting enough gold for the next week. Then, after i ran out, i crafted gold for another day to let me do the event for the last day. All tolled i think i spent around 1875 gold during the event and got 7 coal wards, 12 mounts, 7 anvils, 3 blacksmiths (then i bought another 2 so each char would have one) and a bunch of wards (i didn't use any upgrading). That is a nice haul but it is a DROP IN A BUCKET compared to what 5 characters need to get egworthy.
The cost to craft those things is incredible. I spent weeks trying to stockpile gold because it was expensive when i did it a year ago and then i did it the cheap way. There actually WAS a cheap way. it was my favorite event. I have been looking forward to it for months but here i am basically out of the event already. Spent dry despite stockpiling gold and AD. For what? I could have bought all the pres wards i would get from this event. Coal wards would be nice but it takes a ton of spending before you get to the point where a coal ward isn't wasted. The mounts have no bonus besides gladiator's guile and it isn't gonna do much for your player's effectiveness. you can't even unequip mounts to avoid getting "balanced" in scaled content. If i get the mounts, who am i gonna sell them to? The rich players probably already have them on every mule after they couldn't offload them. I like the anvil artifact but it costs so much to upgrade i'm not sure i want to do it despite having them still in inventory from the event last year. They are being sold for very little already. The forgehammers are in the auction house for 2 million and no one is buying so I am guessing they are relatively useless now. I always wanted one. I could have just bought one if i hadn't spent everything i had for 10 hrs worth of event.
The moment i saw how expensive it was to make sprockets (i think it is sprockets) i went into panic mode. I took advantage of the auction house chaos, buying and selling until i had tripled all i had. But i knew that wasn't enough to keep me going all the way through the event. The price of gold tripled. Everything that could be sold for gold practically disappeared except the few things that were listed at the same amount gold was listed at. Then, as quickly as the chaos began it ended. No one was buying on the AH any more. I had the cheapest prices for things for hours until everyone else selling started dropping prices. Even with low prices, still nothing was selling. Gold dropped back down below the price it was going for before the event.
Oh, and, remember that "vendor bug"? I didn't believe it was really a bug. The whole time i was thinking, "the devs did this on purpose so people couldn't prepare for gond". Am I to believe a game mechanic that has worked for 7 years suddenly and spontaneously malfunctioned right when people needed it most?
Gond went from being the best event in the game to nothing. Why not keep it fun but just make everything bta? As it is now, no one who needs the stuff from the event can afford to participate in the event.
I was just talking to some newbs about how the game is not newb friendly and why it isn't newb friendly. This event makes another good example.
For perspective, when i did it the first time i spent the first day just trying to figure it out. I happened to have about 300 gold on each of my 5 chars which lasted me 4 days. I had so much gold because i had just finished crafting enough gold for the next week. Then, after i ran out, i crafted gold for another day to let me do the event for the last day. All tolled i think i spent around 1875 gold during the event and got 7 coal wards, 12 mounts, 7 anvils, 3 blacksmiths (then i bought another 2 so each char would have one) and a bunch of wards (i didn't use any upgrading). That is a nice haul but it is a DROP IN A BUCKET compared to what 5 characters need to get egworthy.
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7 Coal Wards is really worth having to upgrade bondings from Rank 13 to 15
But, if you are disappointed then the game has failed you. Sorry to hear this
Keep an eye on the ah and pick up gold bars if they start to become cheap again and you will be able to make a killing the next time the event comes around. (And maybe even run it on some alts)
um but yeah the value isn't there for the cost. if you are silly rich it's no skin of any one's nose to open bags but frankly I don't understand why things are selling like they are. there is no value in this event. color me puzzled. it's been all mostly free from my perspective but things are expensive.. why I don't know. it should be nearly free with the values from the bags. Ive got one coal and I've probably opened 50 or 60 bags. 2 plain jane mounts and a couple of the worthless non forgehammer artis.
forgehammers are basically worthless now because the new plain jane white tool is nearly as powerful as the gond tool.
anddd I just realized I missed an important part of this event and feel pretty dumb now. but w/e I can afford the tiny loss I just incurred haha.
the Tl:DR this is a suckers event no doubt. probably the worst we have.